New Certification Process for 2013-2016

This page will give you a brief overview of the changes to certification
for the 2013-2016 Olympiad.

Certification Levels

New officials will now start off at the Apprentice level. We've designed the Apprentice
level so that new officials can spend time learning a number of events and being
exposed to many different areas of track & field. We want to make sure that
we're doing all we can going forward to train well rounded officials.

Certification Grades

To better differentiate certain disciplines, we're going split a few disciplines
off from the main system of certification levels. These disciplines will be certified
using an indeterminate number of grades, customized for each discipline. In additional,
these disciplines will have custom requirements for certification. The following
disciplines will shift to the grade system starting with the 2013-2016 Olympiad: